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CONCORD, Calif. -- A construction contract for northern
California's first major dam in more than a decade has been
let by the Contra Costa Water District. The $43 million
contract involves construction of the district's Los
Vaqueros Project, an earth-fill dam that will hold back a
100,000-acre-foot reservoir.
Construction of the dam is expected to begin this winter by
Kiewit Pacific Co. of Omaha, Neb. The reservoir, plus a new
pipeline and intake, will improve water quality for the
district's 400,000 residents by storing water from the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta during wet periods for blending
with the district's ongoing delta supply in dry seasons. The
dam also is expected to assure an adequate emergency supply.
The dam is the last component of the $450-million Los
Vaqueros Project, which is scheduled for completion by the
end of 1997. Other segments of the project include 20 miles
of buried pipeline along with intake and pumping stations.
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